International Workshop on the

Engineering of Software Services for Pervasive Environments (ESSPE '07)

at ESEC/FSE 2007 - Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 4, 2007

Two trends in information and communication technologies will converge over the next 10 years: Software Services and Pervasive Environments. Both have received considerable individual attention, but the complexities of their interaction and integration have yet to be faced.

• How do we design and develop services that can operate within a pervasive, ubiquitous, and highly dynamic computing environment, one that may involve activities spanning home, work, and nomadic movement?
• How do we provide guarantees of correctness, robustness, resilience, trust, and security when the number of devices, contexts, and users grows to encompass large portions of society and life?
• How do we maintain software systems whose component services may be developed by a variety of different organizations, and deployed and operated for many years?

This workshop looks specifically at the software engineering challenges that underlie these questions.

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Workshop organized as an initiative of the PLASTIC consortium